Advocacy

In this interview with Righting Relations member Chris Harris, we discuss “I Am Not Invisible”: an upcoming prisoner rights campaign launch event with Parkdale Community Legal Services in Toronto Aug 30, 2018 in Toronto, and the re-launch of the Black Inmates and Families Association, Toronto Chapter.

Immigrants and Precarious Employment – A Popular Education Workshop

The Catalyst Centre

This manual has been assembled to support facilitators, community activists, people in precarious employment and educators to make change around precarious employment and to develop an expanded notion about what makes a job precarious. The exercises in the manual are intended to promote reflections, discussions and even plan for actions that will result in better, more decent jobs for all. The activities are participatory and based on a popular education approach to communication and learning, drawing on the knowledge and experience of participants.

Women’s Civic Participation Kit

Since 2004, City for All Women Initiative in Ottawa, Ontario has provided Women’s Civic Participation Training where a total of 150 women have learned how city government works and how to bring their views forward. And of those, about 80% shared their views for the first time. This 9 month training program consists of 4 – 5 full day workshops and working in Action Teams to apply their learning in the municipal election, city budget process and on issues of concern arising at City Hall.Women listen to the concerns of their communities, and bring those concerns forward to their Councillor through e-mails, phone calls, meeting with Councillors and presenting deputations. Currently, CAWI provides this training to women in selected neighbourhoods, who form Neighbourhood Action Teams, so as to engage their neighbours in city issues.

Equity and Inclusion Lens Handbook

Currently being implemented in the city of Ottawa, this comprehensive handbook helps staff and management in any organization view their planning and program development and delivery activities to ensure they are inclusive of the full diversity of men and women.

PDF – Equity and Inclusion Handbook

Mobilizing Ideas

Mobilizing Ideas publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change, and the public sphere. To enhance dialogue between scholars and activists, Mobilizing Ideas hosts exchanges between leading scholars from the social sciences and humanities and the activists they study, featuring original essays responding to a wide variety of problems related to social movements and social change.

This is an Uprising

From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest.

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.

Decolonization

Building Relationships Between Indigenous, Immigrant and Refugee Communities

In this episode of Righting Relations Radio, we are in conversation with Alfredo Barahona from Kairos, exploring relationship-building between Indigenous, Immigrant and Refugee communities which both Kairos and Righting Relations are facilitating across Turtle Island, and the importance of knowing who you are.

First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers to Vancouver

by the City of Vancouver

First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers aims to fill the need for clear information in simple language about the First Peoples in Vancouver. It introduces newcomers to three important topics: who are Aboriginal people (or First Peoples) in Vancouver and Canada; a brief overview of the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Peoples; and current initiatives and ways for newcomers to learn more about Aboriginal people in the community

Uprooting Racism

How White People Can Work For Racial Justice

by Paul Kivel

Uprooting Racism explores the manifestations of racism in politics, work, community, and family life. It moves beyond the definition and unlearning of racism to address the many areas of privilege for white people and suggests ways for individuals and groups to challenge the structures of racism.

The Neo-Liberal Ideology: A Historical Context

Adapted from PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP: A Training Manual

by Jojo Geronimo

Neo-Liberal Ideology: Underpinnings & Assumptions:
– The private sector (“market forces”) are always more efficient
– The public sector is wasteful & therefore should be trimmed
– Government has no role in delivery of services, only in “steering the boat”

Facilitation for Social Change

Building Relationships Between Indigenous, Immigrant and Refugee Communities

In this episode of Righting Relations Radio, we are in conversation with Alfredo Barahona from Kairos, exploring relationship-building between Indigenous, Immigrant and Refugee communities which both Kairos and Righting Relations are facilitating across Turtle Island, and the importance of knowing who you are.

Immigrants and Precarious Employment – A Popular Education Workshop

The Catalyst Centre

This manual has been assembled to support facilitators, community activists, people in precarious employment and educators to make change around precarious employment and to develop an expanded notion about what makes a job precarious. The exercises in the manual are intended to promote reflections, discussions and even plan for actions that will result in better, more decent jobs for all. The activities are participatory and based on a popular education approach to communication and learning, drawing on the knowledge and experience of participants.

First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers to Vancouver

by the City of Vancouver

First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers aims to fill the need for clear information in simple language about the First Peoples in Vancouver. It introduces newcomers to three important topics: who are Aboriginal people (or First Peoples) in Vancouver and Canada; a brief overview of the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Peoples; and current initiatives and ways for newcomers to learn more about Aboriginal people in the community

YES! Jam Activities Facilitation Manual

Connect, Inspire, Collaborate!

An activities manual from YES! focusing on co-learning, community building and healing.

Browse the manual online for free or purchase the PDF or hard copy for a suggested donation

Life Affirming Practices

In this interview with Righting Relations member Chris Harris, we discuss “I Am Not Invisible”: an upcoming prisoner rights campaign launch event with Parkdale Community Legal Services in Toronto Aug 30, 2018 in Toronto, and the re-launch of the Black Inmates and Families Association, Toronto Chapter.

Theatre for Living

The Art and Science of Community-Based Dialogue

by David Diamond

Theatre for Living approaches the community as a living organism and recognizes when plays are created, they are made to help us investigate ways to change the behaviors that create the structure, not only the structure itself.

Popular Education

Immigrants and Precarious Employment – A Popular Education Workshop

The Catalyst Centre

This manual has been assembled to support facilitators, community activists, people in precarious employment and educators to make change around precarious employment and to develop an expanded notion about what makes a job precarious. The exercises in the manual are intended to promote reflections, discussions and even plan for actions that will result in better, more decent jobs for all. The activities are participatory and based on a popular education approach to communication and learning, drawing on the knowledge and experience of participants.

Theatre for Living

The Art and Science of Community-Based Dialogue

by David Diamond

Theatre for Living approaches the community as a living organism and recognizes when plays are created, they are made to help us investigate ways to change the behaviors that create the structure, not only the structure itself.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

This book proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society. Dedicated to the oppressed and based on Paulo Freire’s own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, It is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy and includes a detailed analysis of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.

English for Organizing

An ESOL Workbook For Immigrant Workers

Produced by CASA of Maryland, this workbook discusses the importance of employment organization and workers’ rights. It follows the steps of immigrants from coming into the US, looking for work and ends with the advocation for social change.

Economics for Everyone

A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

by Jim Stanford, Economist for the CAW

Jim Stanford’s Economics for Everyone has quickly become a standard reference for economics literacy and popular education. Now published in 6 languages, the book is used in higher education, trade unions, and community education initiatives around the world.

Under The Radar: Popular Education in North America

by Drick Boyd

Popular education in North America today largely operates “under the radar”; even so it is a powerful and dynamic social movement that is resisting oppression, fighting injustice, and bringing hope to people in communities large and small.

Key Principles of Freire

by Anne Hope & Sally Timmel

This excerpt from Training for Transformation, A Handbook for Community Workers was written in order to support the work of community workers in Africa and provides a good background and framework for the philosophy of popular education in doing community organizing.

Feminist Popular Education: Transforming the World From Where Women Stand

by Suzanne Doerge

The evolving theory and practice of feminist popular education has implications that stretch beyond particular workshops with women. Feminist popular education is transforming the world from where women stand. It is, as with popular education, also a theory and methodology for social movements, community development and research.